This picture is presented
as an exceptionally meritorious piece of character study photography.
It happens that the subject of the sketch is C. F. McPherson, the
Enterprise baker. He was a member of a hunting party in October and
officiated as cook. After partaking generously of one of his own
meals he was caught standing in the doorway of the cabn, with a look and
pose of such perfect ease and contentment, that the photographer concluded
the opportunity should not be overlooked. The cabin is at the old
ranger station in Big Sheep creek. Mr. McPherson says he felt just
as comfortable as he looked. Photo by Juve & Vergere

Snow slides which are frequent in the Wallowa mountains
later in the spring make permanent occupation of their valleys and slopes
extremely hazardous. The mountains are very steep, often rising from
the valley to the summit with hardly any real break in the grade.
Winter brings heavy snowfalls. When the warm rains, sun and wind of
spring soften the snow, it loses its hold and dashes to the valley in a
destructive avalanche. The photograph here shown was taken in one of
the valleys above Wallowa lake, after a snow slide had come down last
spring. Great trees, rocks and debris of all kinds were carried in
the avalanche. Further up the valley, beyond the path of the snow
slide the trees were seen standing, just as they were before the snow
swept them down in the immediate vicinity.

This the time to think of
breaking sod for the new crop, on hundreds of acres of virgin soil in
Wallowa County. Each year since the first settler came into this
secluded little empire, much new land has been put into cultivation, and
the work is not nearly finished. In fact each year sees more sod
turned and put into wheat or other grain. This striking photograph
shows Roy C. Edgmand breaking sod on his homestead near Chico. It is
suspected that he had some assistance

On the slopes and benches
found along the canyons in the east and north parts of Wallowa County the
sheep find their winter pasture. The band here shown belonged to
Dobin and Huffman, and was grazing on Jay H. Dobbin's ranch on Tulley
creek, Imnaha valley. Guy A. Spencer is the herder and the
photograph was taken April 25 of this year by Guy W. Huffman. Among
the ewes are shown many sturdy lambs, some of which will go out to the
eastern mutton markets this fall.

This striking picture
shows six thoroughbred Hampshire bucks on Carl Whitmore's Spruce Grove
farm. Any one who ever has taken photographs of animals at close
range knows the difficulty of getting them to group themselves suitably,
and inducing them to keep still long enough to make possible their

reproduction on the negative.
Mr. Whitmore is an enthusiast on thoroughbred stock, and is president of
the Wallowa County Fair Association. Photo by Juve & Vergere

W. H. Durham's shearing
plant was located this spring on land of the East Oregon Lumber Company on
Swamp Creek, a short distance below C. E. Funk's land. For several
years the plant had been near Swamp Creek, but formerly it was farther
south and east in the hill district. Sam Litch owned it. At
its present location it is sheltered from late storms that some times play
havoc with newly shorn sheep. Mr. Durham sheared 27,000 sheep at the
plant this spring, starting in the middle of May. The work went
slowly because of the frequent rains.

Many shearers follow the trade all spring and
summer, going from one plant and state to another. Some start early
in the spring in California and New Mexico and work north as the season
advances.